Saba Fatima: What It Is Like to Be a Philosopher?
The APA blog is working with Cliff Sosis of What is it Like to Be a Philosopher? in publishing advance excerpts from Cliff’s long-form interviews with...
The Invisible Philosopher: Hans Blumenberg
Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996) is a posthumous celebrity in post-war German philosophical circles, partly thanks to Sibylle Lewitscharoff’s 2011 novel, Blumenberg. Now, without irony, a...
Philosophy in the Contemporary World: The McDonaldization of Philosophy
As societies have evolved beyond the preindustrial era, they have become more and more dominated by bureaucracies. However, the ultimate form of bureaucracy is...
Entitled Opinions: Philosophy Outside Academia
The task of making the case for philosophy and the humanities has never been more urgent. Nevertheless, it has become the province of a...
Horrific Thoughts: Incorporating Student Film-Making in a Course on Horror and Philosophy
Why do horror fans like to be scared? What does horror teach us about the meaning of life (and death)? Is the human condition...
The Culture of Assessment
Not a day passes without an invitation to assess some service, usually by filling out a form, with scales from 1 to 5 to...
Philosophers on Medicine Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia
It is no revelation that there is philosophy in medicine. Bioethics contains ethics, and bioethics is a booming enterprise. But what about metaphysics, epistemology,...
Documenting the Impact and Reach of the NEH
In 2017, in response to the Trump administration’s threat to cut funding to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Alliance launched...
Poststructuralist Tent Revival Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia
Podcasts have been an indispensably important resource for my own philosophical education. I attended a small, religious undergraduate institution where we had exactly one...
What It is Like to Be a Philosopher: Simon Critchley
The APA blog is working with Cliff Sosis of What is it Like to Be a Philosopher? in publishing advance excerpts from Cliff’s long-form interviews with...